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by davisr 3y ago
It would take shorter than if we were to stop CO2 production at any later date. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, and the second-best time is right now. Do what you can. Live sustainably. Vote righteously. Have consideration f
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by davisr 3y ago
Perkins St. gang represent!
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by davisr 3y ago
> If they put in their support contract "sure you can distribute the code but you'll have to pay a $10_000 for each line of code you distribute" then is that adding restrictions to the GPL code? That would be a restric
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by davisr 3y ago
I guess PFAS in the water doesn't count? Another way...what about the corporate military industrial complex, which wages disinformation campaigns (2003 Iraq, anyone?) to _go to war_ to generate them profits via manufacturing weapons? W
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by davisr 3y ago
You can talk about the influence of bots and astroturfers...so long as you agree it's all one big conspiracy theory, like all the comments did on my post from yesterday [1], "The Gentleperson's Guide to Forum Spies". [2]
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by davisr 3y ago
(Reporting back) PayPal has now fixed this issue.
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by davisr 3y ago
Yes, it is now. From Red Hat's original June 21 article [1] (they even put it in bold). > CentOS Stream will now be the sole repository for public RHEL-related source code releases. RHEL is in there somewhere, even if a user has t
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by davisr 3y ago
Yeah, Red Hat is free to terminate their business with you. And you are free to get that software from somewhere else. To quote again from the Selling Free Software article (linked above): > With free software, users don't have to
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by davisr 3y ago
Sorry, here you go [1]. Last activity 28 minutes ago. [1]: https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream Additional docs: https://docs.centos.org/en-US/stream-contrib/techinfo/builds...
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by davisr 3y ago
It is in the spirit, and here it is straight from the horse's mouth: > Many people believe that the spirit of the GNU Project is that you should not charge money for distributing copies of software, or that you should charge as lit
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by davisr 3y ago
Red Hat never called anyone "freeloaders" in any of their blog posts. Also, there is nothing wrong with making people pay for free software. That is explicitly in the philosophy of free software and the GNU Project. > Many peo
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by davisr 3y ago
Will you please explain how Red Hat is making a concerted attack on open source?
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by davisr 3y ago
The main issue is that people in this thread, and elsewhere in related threads, are coming to believe that Red Hat is somehow doing something illegal or improper -- due to inaccurate and misleading headlines, and misinterpretations of the r
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by davisr 3y ago
What actions? What anti-FLOSS? They are complying fully with the terms of all licenses of RHEL and CentOS Software. Don't believe me? Here is what Fedora says about it [1]. It's no problem for them. "There is no change in Fed
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by davisr 3y ago
> claiming I'm not claiming. I am linking to relevant sources directly from Red Hat staff. That is an authoritative source. > that everyone No, not everyone, I never said that, and you misrepresenting what I said and distracting
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by davisr 3y ago
They haven't put anything behind a wall. You want CentOS Stream and RHEL source code? Then go get it! Here it is! [1] [1]: https://git.centos.org/ When you buy RHEL, you even get the entire source code on a DVD for the
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by davisr 3y ago
Red Hat's Mike McGrath explains [1]: > Anyone is allowed to create an account, get GPL'ed code and redistribute that code as much as they want according to the license. But they don't actually want the code because as I&#
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by davisr 3y ago
Red Hat's Mike McGrath explains [1]: > That confusion manifested as accusations about us going closed-source and about alleged GPL violations. There is CentOS Stream the binary deliverable, and CentOS Stream the source repository.
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Selling Free Software(gnu.org)
1 points by davisr 3y ago|0 comments
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by davisr 3y ago
> Trying to paywall gpl software is simply theft No, it's not, and I've seen your comments elsewhere. I don't think you even know what the "free" in "free software" means. You are COMPLETELY allowed to
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by davisr 3y ago
> CONCLUSION > > Remember these techniques are only effective > if the forum participants DO NOT KNOW ABOUT THEM. > Once they are aware of these techniques the > operation can completely fail, and the fo
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The Gentleperson's Guide to Forum Spies (2012)(web.archive.org)
12 points by davisr 3y ago|8 comments
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by davisr 3y ago
This is the first I'm hearing about sales tax being involved--and (1) + (2) perfectly describe my business. I've disabled sales tax...let's see if that helps. FWIW, I received a similar statement from their MTS today. Only th
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PayPal “Buy Now” buttons have been broken for a week
134 points by davisr 3y ago|46 comments
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by davisr 3y ago
https://archive.org/details/ufos-are-real-1979
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by davisr 3y ago
I respectfully disagree. Are you suggesting everyone just rolls over and forgets about making decisions to the best of their ability to ensure security? The switches on the outside of your network do not matter. The traffic doesn't mat
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by davisr 3y ago
Don't use Cisco equipment; they put (quite sloppy) backdoors in their products. Absolutely zero trust with them. Snowden: The NSA planted backdoors in Cisco products --- https://www.infoworld.com/article/2608141&#x
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by davisr 3y ago
RMS and the FSF fight for free software, not open source software. There is an important semantic difference that your comment doesn't appreciate. See: Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software https://www.gnu.org&#x
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by davisr 3y ago
Yes and no. The engineers and designers probably are dumb, but they were specifically hired by management to engineer and design management's vision. They would not have been hired if they did not share management's vision. If the
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by davisr 3y ago
Why would they be excited? That would certainly cut their funding. > UFOS: CHALLENGE TO SETI SPECIALISTS (Friedman, 2002) > Major news media and many members of the scientific community have taken strongly to the radio-telescope-based

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